The tension started to emerge from different datasets in the 2000s, mainly from the Hubble Space Telescope, and also recent ...

Physicists are quietly entertaining one of the strangest ideas in modern cosmology: that the cosmos we see might be only half ...

Cosmologists have long treated black holes and the Big Bang as separate extremes of physics, one swallowing light, the other ...

The past, present and future of the universe is about to be revealed in unprecedented detail by Britain’s biggest academic supercomputer called the Cosmology Machine, based at the University of Durham ...

Early 20th-century cosmology transitioned from galactic astronomy with Edwin Hubble's discovery of external galaxies and the universe's expansion, which Albert Einstein's general relativity later ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological ...

A team of South Korean researchers have found that a mysterious force known as dark energy is changing our Universe in a way ...

No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun ...

The clearest pictures yet of the newborn cosmos strengthen the prevailing model of the universe but deepen a mystery about its expansion rate. Measurements of this rate, known as the Hubble constant, ...

The age of the Universe has been a subject of debate for many years now. In an attempt to assess the value of the Universe, astronomers have agreed that it was formed through the Big Bang theory ...

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The universe is expanding much faster than scientists predicted, and nobody knows why. A team of researchers have confirmed this dilemma with data gathered using a new telescope technology that relies ...